User:Jahsonic/AHE/France/Plump breast, whiter than an egg
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Eleven years before Rabelais publishes his blasons, two other blasons see the light of day. They are written by Clément Marot, a contemporary of Rabelais, and they feature the alternation between reviling and adulation for which the genre will become known. In the blason of the beautiful tit Marot sings the beauty of a woman's breast.
- Plump breast, whiter than an egg
- Breast of brand new white satin
- Breast that puts the rose to shame
- Breast more beautiful than anything
- Firm breast, not a breast but,
- A little round ball of ivory
- --tr. A World of Difference by Barbara Johnson
Again, the counterblason, the blason of the ugly tit, keeps the previous blason companionship.
- Tit
- Tit, skinny tit,
- flat tit that looks like a flag,
- big tit, long tit,
- tit, must I call thee bag?
- Tit with its ugly black end,
- forever moving tit.
- Who would boast having touched you?
- With their hand fondle you?
- --(tr. by Helene Marmoux)
This page Jahsonic/AHE/France/Plump breast, whiter than an egg, part of the AHE project is copyright Jan Willem Geerinck and may only be cited as per the fair use doctrine. The images mentioned in the text can be found here and the translation notes here.
